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No. 129 a new Sparrow, Passer cuius beldingi, sp. nov.^ from 

 Southern California, is described as similar to the darker form 

 of P. sandwichensis from the salt-marshes of San Francisco 

 (for which he proposes the name P. sandwichensis bryanti, 

 subsp. nov.), but is again much darker and has a larger bill. 

 It seems that Passerculus anthinus of Bonaparte, from Alaska, 

 is a pure synonym of his P. alaudinus. In No. 130 Mr. llidg- 

 way announces the discovery of a specimen of the Petrel 

 (Estrelata defilijjpiana in the American Museum of Natural 

 History, New York, and shows that it is " very distinct " 

 from (E. fisheri, with which he had previously supposed it 

 might be identical. In No. 131 he proposes to separate from 

 Icterus cucullatus two new snhsiiecies — (1) the paler/, c. nelsoni 

 from Western Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona, 

 (2) the ruddier /. c. igneus, from Yucatan, leaving the inter- 

 mediate form from Southern and Eastern Mexico as I. cu- 

 cullatus. According to No. 132 Contopus pileatus, sp. n., is 

 a small member of the genus with a " sooty grey cap,^^ based 

 on a single specimen, from an unknown locality, in the Ame- 

 rican Museum of Natural History, New York. In No. 133 

 the specific name " minima " is proposed for the small form of 

 Canada Goose from the Pacific coast called Bernicla cana- 

 densis leucopareia in the lately-issued 'Water-Birds of North 

 America/ i. p. 456, because Anser leucopareius, Brandt = ^. 

 hutchinsi, Sw. et Hichards. In No. 131j the form of Grana- 

 tellus salkei from Yucatan is separated subspecifically as 

 G. sallm boucardi. In No. 135 Mr. Hidgway describes a new 

 Blue Crow allied to Cyanocorax ornatus, from the Atlantic 

 slope of Costa Rica, under the name of C. cucullatiis, and a 

 new subspecies of Vireolanius, from Costa Kica to Panama, as 

 V. pulchellus verticalis. The latter differs from the northern 

 form in having the whole crown light green. In No. 136 he 

 describes Certhiola finschi, from an uncertain localit;^, as like 

 C. martinicana, but smaller and with yellow superciliaries ; 

 C. sundevalli, like C. do?ninicana, but with yellow supercili- 

 aries and the upper parts more slaty, from Guadeloupe and 

 Dominica ; and C. sancti-thoma, from St. Thomas. He adds 

 a new and useful " key " to the genus, in which 19 species 

 are recognized, the principal synonyms being added. 



